>>>average American spends something like $50/yr on copies of movies/music
I spent $0.00 on movies/music this year. And the year before. Why should I have to pay a $50 fee for a product I'm not using??? Stupid. The RIAA can go frak themselves because I'm not paying them a dime. ----- IMHO Americans should only pay if they walk out of the "store" with a DVD or CD or MP3 in hand. If they do none of those, then they shouldn't have to pay at all.
>>>"After about 8 cores, there's no improvement," says James Peery, director of computation, computers, information, and mathematics at Sandia. "At 16 cores, it looks like 2 cores." >>>
That's interesting but how does it affect us, the users of "personal computers"? Can we extrapolate that buying a CPU larger than 8 cores is a waste of dollars, because it will actually run slower?
(almost) no teens are getting arrested for displaying their nude bodies on the net, because nudity is not illegal according to the U.S. Supreme Court - only underage sex is illegal.
Back to Australia - what are the freedoms regarding nudism and nudist photos?
>>>Comparing Bush to Hitler is stupid. Learning the lessons of appeasement is not.
On the other hand, we must also remember the lessons of World War 1 - running into a war for no good reason will merely wipe out a generation of soldiers. Make sure the young men/women are dying for a worthy cause, not just fighting for the sake of fighting. WW1 was a disastrous mistake.
>>>This trick is necessary in all multitasking operating systems.
Funny. My 1 megabyte Commodore Amiga never used virtual memory or pagefiles, and yet it multitasked just fine. I recall one time, just for fun, I had ~50 tetris games open all at the same time and they all fit into real physical RAM.
>>>"Oh, I don't know a/thing/ about that! hur hur, in my day, all we had was pen and paper..." etc etc etc.
That sounds a lot like me, but the difference is I follow it up with, "Please explain it to me." You see I can't be bothered to know all the details of how, for example, an Ipod works because I don't own one, but I'm certainly willing to learn if I can find someone who is PATIENT AND A GOOD TEACHER rather than a condescending asshole.
Virtual memory, since it's really just hard drive storage, is about 1/100th as fast as RAM. How can you say there's no penalty? I certainly notice a slowdown when I move my Firefox browser from minimized to maximized, and it has to load its cached webpage from my c: drive. The screen freezes for about 30 seconds.
I call that a penalty - one that could be avoided by not using hard-drive-based virtual memory.
>>>American spends something like $50/yr on copies of movies/music
I spent $0 on movies/music this year. And the year before. Why should I have to pay a $50 fee for no product received??? Stupid. The RIAA can go fuck themselves because I'm not paying them a dime.
Americans should only pay if they walk out of the store with a DVD or CD or MP3 in hand. If they do none of those, then they shouldn't have to pay at all.
If I owned a bar I'd tell BMI/ASCAP to "fuck off; I only play public domain stuff here". A commercial entity only has power over you if you give it to them. Don't give away your power so casually.
If my children stumble across something, I encourage them to ask questions and I answer them as honestly as possible. After all, I'm preparing my children to be ADULTS which means they need to learn how to deal with the adult world. To shelter them from exposure to the real world means I'm not doing my job as a parent (turning children into adults).
You think I'm going to just silently let them take-away my freedom of speech? Frak that. Shoot them. "From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Tyrants." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson
>>>Writing to Conroy is pointless at this stage. He's quite foolishly staked his career on it, and will never back down no matter what
A bullet through the head will change his mind. "From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Tyrants." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson
Just a little joke.:-) What I'd like to know is how "child porn" is defined. If a family posts photos of their recent summer trip to a clothes-optional resort, are they going to get blacklisted by the Aussie government? Or is nudity of dad, mom, and the kiddies considered acceptable?
What about the so-called "mirror teens" who like to take photos of their 15-16-17 year old bodies and send them to boyfriends/girlfriends? Is the Aussie government going to start arresting them too?
""Civil Disobedience" is Thoreau's extremely personal response to being imprisoned for breaking the law. Because he detested slavery and because tax revenues contributed to the support of it, Thoreau decided to become a tax rebel. In July 1846, he was arrested and jailed.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, "Henry, what are you doing in there?" Thoreau replied, "Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?" Emerson missed the point of Thoreau's protest, which was not intended to reform society but was simply an act of conscience. If we do not distinguish right from wrong, Thoreau argued that we will eventually lose the capacity to make the distinction and become, instead, morally numb."
The journalists who are jailed felt telling the truth & standing by their morals was more important than freedom. Even a good form of government is "liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it." Moreover, even if a government did express the voice of the people, this fact would not compel the obedience of individuals who disagree with what is being said. The majority may be powerful but it is not necessarily right.
Perhaps the best description of Thoreau's ideal relationship occurs in his description of "a really free and enlightened State" that recognizes "the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived."
IMHO Google and Yahoo should have gone through with the deal, and face the DOJ head-on. "From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson. IMHO in this case it was the U.S.-DOJ that was being tyrannical and threatening a lawsuit without cause.
On the other hand, the left has lots of union backing, and unions like the idea of preserving jobs even if that means giving companies a Taxpayer bailout.
Please show me a monopoly that has lasted longer than one generation (25 years). In every case the monopoly was only a temporary one, and eventually was superceded by the growth of new technology, or the arrival of new companies to add competition. Take as example the CD. Sony/Philips held a monopoly on CDs as method of music distribution, eventually forcing phonographs/cassettes out of the marketplace. However the monopoly was short lived (about five years) as other companies quickly developed new method of distribution like MP3s and AACs.
The same is true for Standard Oil which was once claimed to be a monopoly. They did dominate for a short fifteen year period, but were eventually eclipsed by other oil suppliers in Texas, Alaska, and overseas.
There's simply no need for government to interfere, because the free market will eliminate monopolies all by itself, via the natural progress of competition.
Maybe someone should sue Apple for not allowing AACplusSBR on their Ipods? AACplus sounds a heck of a lot better (especially for the 10,000 and higher frequencies), and I don't understand why Ipod has not embraced its use.
Why is it illegal to clone Apple Macintosh computers, but it was not illegal to clone the IBM PC? Why is Apple protected, but IBM was not? What's the distinction?
The fact that you confuse them with traditional Reagan-style conservatives indicates you don't understand U.S. politics. Although I am conservative, I don't agree with anything Bush did from 2002 onward. He should have followed his original plan (a balanced budget with gradually shrinking debt) and not let himself be distracted by Osama Bin Asshole.
And as for the libertarians, they have about as much chance of winning an election as the Nazi American party. I joined them for about two years until I realized I was just wasting my energy.
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Enlightening. Thanks.
Well if I had over 1000 gig of RAM, I don't really need to worry about data/programs just sitting "idle", because I have plenty of RAM to waste.
Also:
>>>average American spends something like $50/yr on copies of movies/music
I spent $0.00 on movies/music this year. And the year before. Why should I have to pay a $50 fee for a product I'm not using??? Stupid. The RIAA can go frak themselves because I'm not paying them a dime. ----- IMHO Americans should only pay if they walk out of the "store" with a DVD or CD or MP3 in hand. If they do none of those, then they shouldn't have to pay at all.
>>>"After about 8 cores, there's no improvement," says James Peery, director of computation, computers, information, and mathematics at Sandia. "At 16 cores, it looks like 2 cores."
>>>
That's interesting but how does it affect us, the users of "personal computers"? Can we extrapolate that buying a CPU larger than 8 cores is a waste of dollars, because it will actually run slower?
(almost) no teens are getting arrested for displaying their nude bodies on the net, because nudity is not illegal according to the U.S. Supreme Court - only underage sex is illegal.
Back to Australia - what are the freedoms regarding nudism and nudist photos?
>>>Comparing Bush to Hitler is stupid. Learning the lessons of appeasement is not.
On the other hand, we must also remember the lessons of World War 1 - running into a war for no good reason will merely wipe out a generation of soldiers. Make sure the young men/women are dying for a worthy cause, not just fighting for the sake of fighting. WW1 was a disastrous mistake.
Yeah because "You libeled me," is a really good reason to deprive a writer of his/her freedom.
Not.
>>>This trick is necessary in all multitasking operating systems.
Funny. My 1 megabyte Commodore Amiga never used virtual memory or pagefiles, and yet it multitasked just fine. I recall one time, just for fun, I had ~50 tetris games open all at the same time and they all fit into real physical RAM.
You don't have to have VM to multitask.
What if I have 1024 gigabytes of RAM?
Do I still need to use virtual memory, or can I just get by with 100% physical memory?
>>>"Oh, I don't know a /thing/ about that! hur hur, in my day, all we had was pen and paper..." etc etc etc.
That sounds a lot like me, but the difference is I follow it up with, "Please explain it to me." You see I can't be bothered to know all the details of how, for example, an Ipod works because I don't own one, but I'm certainly willing to learn if I can find someone who is PATIENT AND A GOOD TEACHER rather than a condescending asshole.
Which one are you?
I don't understand this part:
>>>there is no penalty for using virtual memory
Virtual memory, since it's really just hard drive storage, is about 1/100th as fast as RAM. How can you say there's no penalty? I certainly notice a slowdown when I move my Firefox browser from minimized to maximized, and it has to load its cached webpage from my c: drive. The screen freezes for about 30 seconds.
I call that a penalty - one that could be avoided by not using hard-drive-based virtual memory.
>>>American spends something like $50/yr on copies of movies/music
I spent $0 on movies/music this year. And the year before. Why should I have to pay a $50 fee for no product received??? Stupid. The RIAA can go fuck themselves because I'm not paying them a dime.
Americans should only pay if they walk out of the store with a DVD or CD or MP3 in hand. If they do none of those, then they shouldn't have to pay at all.
If I owned a bar I'd tell BMI/ASCAP to "fuck off; I only play public domain stuff here". A commercial entity only has power over you if you give it to them. Don't give away your power so casually.
I'm taking a course about World War 2. Should I yell out "Godwin - end of lecture!" every time my prof mentions Hitler or Nazis?
No. That's just another form of censorship. History needs to be studied and understood, not hidden behind silence.
I don't filter anything.
If my children stumble across something, I encourage them to ask questions and I answer them as honestly as possible. After all, I'm preparing my children to be ADULTS which means they need to learn how to deal with the adult world. To shelter them from exposure to the real world means I'm not doing my job as a parent (turning children into adults).
Silence?
You think I'm going to just silently let them take-away my freedom of speech? Frak that. Shoot them. "From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Tyrants." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson
>>>Writing to Conroy is pointless at this stage. He's quite foolishly staked his career on it, and will never back down no matter what
A bullet through the head will change his mind. "From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Tyrants." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson
At least China has jobs.
(ducks a spitball)
Just a little joke. :-) What I'd like to know is how "child porn" is defined. If a family posts photos of their recent summer trip to a clothes-optional resort, are they going to get blacklisted by the Aussie government? Or is nudity of dad, mom, and the kiddies considered acceptable?
What about the so-called "mirror teens" who like to take photos of their 15-16-17 year old bodies and send them to boyfriends/girlfriends? Is the Aussie government going to start arresting them too?
""Civil Disobedience" is Thoreau's extremely personal response to being imprisoned for breaking the law. Because he detested slavery and because tax revenues contributed to the support of it, Thoreau decided to become a tax rebel. In July 1846, he was arrested and jailed.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, "Henry, what are you doing in there?" Thoreau replied, "Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?" Emerson missed the point of Thoreau's protest, which was not intended to reform society but was simply an act of conscience. If we do not distinguish right from wrong, Thoreau argued that we will eventually lose the capacity to make the distinction and become, instead, morally numb."
- http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0503e.asp
The journalists who are jailed felt telling the truth & standing by their morals was more important than freedom. Even a good form of government is "liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it." Moreover, even if a government did express the voice of the people, this fact would not compel the obedience of individuals who disagree with what is being said. The majority may be powerful but it is not necessarily right.
Perhaps the best description of Thoreau's ideal relationship occurs in his description of "a really free and enlightened State" that recognizes "the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived."
Oh my Deity. Did he just attack Obama?
Wow. I knew the Obama as President criticism would start eventually, but I didn't think it would happen before he was even sworn-into office.
IMHO Google and Yahoo should have gone through with the deal, and face the DOJ head-on. "From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants." - Democratic Party founder Thomas Jefferson. IMHO in this case it was the U.S.-DOJ that was being tyrannical and threatening a lawsuit without cause.
On the other hand, the left has lots of union backing, and unions like the idea of preserving jobs even if that means giving companies a Taxpayer bailout.
Please show me a monopoly that has lasted longer than one generation (25 years). In every case the monopoly was only a temporary one, and eventually was superceded by the growth of new technology, or the arrival of new companies to add competition. Take as example the CD. Sony/Philips held a monopoly on CDs as method of music distribution, eventually forcing phonographs/cassettes out of the marketplace. However the monopoly was short lived (about five years) as other companies quickly developed new method of distribution like MP3s and AACs.
The same is true for Standard Oil which was once claimed to be a monopoly. They did dominate for a short fifteen year period, but were eventually eclipsed by other oil suppliers in Texas, Alaska, and overseas.
There's simply no need for government to interfere, because the free market will eliminate monopolies all by itself, via the natural progress of competition.
Maybe someone should sue Apple for not allowing AACplusSBR on their Ipods? AACplus sounds a heck of a lot better (especially for the 10,000 and higher frequencies), and I don't understand why Ipod has not embraced its use.
QUESTION:
Why is it illegal to clone Apple Macintosh computers, but it was not illegal to clone the IBM PC? Why is Apple protected, but IBM was not? What's the distinction?
NEO-conservatives you mean.
The fact that you confuse them with traditional Reagan-style conservatives indicates you don't understand U.S. politics. Although I am conservative, I don't agree with anything Bush did from 2002 onward. He should have followed his original plan (a balanced budget with gradually shrinking debt) and not let himself be distracted by Osama Bin Asshole.
And as for the libertarians, they have about as much chance of winning an election as the Nazi American party. I joined them for about two years until I realized I was just wasting my energy.